Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. Rosetta launched in 2004 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first ...

After a decade of travel, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft arrived at a comet early this morning. "Ten years we've been waiting in the car to get to scientific Disneyland," ESA's Mark ...

In June 2011, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft reached a dead end as it approached about 500 million miles away from the sun, near Jupiter’s orbit where the solar-powered craft ...

Europe's comet-chasing space probe Rosetta dipped out of orbit Friday with a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it's been following for more than a decade. Its final radio ...

A quick update and image. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft moved to within 22,990 miles (37,000 km) of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on July 4 and took these fresh images. That's only ...